Safer stronger communities

Community Safety Partnership

Promoting trust and understanding between groups from different backgrounds is as important in Herefordshire, as anywhere else. Through our membership of the Community Safety Partnership we encourage neighbourhoods, villages and towns in the county to become more involved in making where they live even safer.

Not feeling safe where you live or work can have a major effect upon your quality of life, health and wellbeing. At worst, it leads to social isolation and make someone feel ever more vulnerable in their own community. Fortunately, Herefordshire is generally a very safe place with some of the lowest crime rates in the country. However, we want to make things even better.

The Community Safety Partnership's main priorities

To help improve the safety and well-being of residents and visitors to the county, the Community Safety Partnership work to:

Areas we focus on

Making Herefordshire's roads safer

We work closely with the Safer Roads Partnership for West Mercia and local policing teams to identify areas where speeding is considered a particular problem for local residents. While West Mercia Police are responsible for the actual enforcement of speed limits, you can talk to us about possible speed calming measures. You could also set up one of our roadside speed indication devices in your community to encourage better driver behaviour, if that's an appropriate solution.